Monday, July 29, 2013

[COMMENT]Another week and we are deep into summer here in the "Southland". Very important stories happening while most of local radio is talking about San Diego Mayor Filner and Weiner and his wife. All kinds of non-sense. [Doug McIntyre] said this morning that he loves it because it's fodder for talk radio, it is. But as I have said many times, I will... turn the station or turn off the radio. Just because the local news or main stream media is talking about it non stop doesn't mean anyone other than TMZ fans or dancing with the stars voters want to hear about it. I know I could not care less than I do right now. Meanwhile [Mark Levin] is talking about how ObamaCare will end the 40 hour work week. That will destroy this country. Or how about how the fact that IRS is going to run your life and is totally out of control. Oh sorry that must be a phony scandal. And to make it beyond ridiculous, the IRS employee union doesn't even want ObamaCare. Thank god we have people like [Hugh Hewitt] who are paying attention to what's going on around the world. He wrote a piece today for the Washington Examiner called:
Mainstream media ignorance of Muslim Brotherhood loomshttp://washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media-ignorance-of-muslim-brotherhood-looms/article/2533579

As a chronic listener to talk radio for over 25 years I have learned that I need to pick and choose when to grab that radio knob tightly, and what action to take to keep me entertained and sane and informed. It's all shiny from use.

[RADIO]Get ready for this in Los Angeles
CBS GOES REGIONAL MEXICAN IN DALLAS

Marconi Radio Award-winning personality Edgar “ShoBoy” Sotelo will now be heard in Dallas as CBS flips one of its signals to Hispanic. La GRANDE 107.5- FM brings together some of Spanish radio’s most talented on-air personalities with the very best in Regional Mexican music, according to PD Jimmy Gonzalez. "It all starts with ‘ShoBoy En La Mañana.’ Edgar’s positive energy and enthusiasm set the tone for the entire station.”

Back in the day of 97.1 The FM Talk Station Sam would come into the station and BS with [Conway and Whitman]. He was a card player and invited the guys to come to his house to play poker. He was funny and told some great stories. Conway would always ask about his money, he has a couple hundred million and that he always carried a wad of about 5 grand in his pocket. He loves Las Vegas and gambling. He was friends with [Norm McDonald] and others. This story about him being so sick is just a shock. That old cliche about how you can't take it with you is not so accurate in Sams case, his wealth will live on in all his causes.http://www.samsimonfoundation.com/

[Limbaugh], [Hannity] To Lose Radio Deals The second largest radio broadcasting company is reportedly ready to dump two of its most conservative talk show hosts. Cumulus Media will be dropping Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity by the end of the year, according to an industry source. That would mean that two of the biggest right-wing voices on the radio won't be available in 40 major markets across the country come 2014. The pair seems to be caught up in contract negotiations between Cumulus and Clear Channel, the company that distributes the shows. The companies have had tough negotiations before, but it looks like this time they won't be able to reach an agreement.

Rush this morning said that "You are being treated to a public business negotiation"

[QUOTE]"Your pacifist sister has caused a war in your family" - [Dennis Prager]

[PODCASTS]Leo talks about the Chomecast on his Sunday show. If you want the details, check that out.http://twit.tv/

Also on [Marc Maron]. [John Cale], one of the original members of the Velvet Underground talks about the slice of music history that he is. And then [Don Barris], the first guy Marc met when he moved to LA in the 80's talks about his insane journey in show business and their shared chaotic history at The Comedy Store.http://www.wtfpod.com/

[THUMBS DOWN]Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the billionaire Saudi Arabian investor, has warned that his country’s oil-dependent economy is increasingly vulnerable to competition from the US shale revolution. “Our country is facing continuous threat because of its almost total dependency on oil,” he wrote in the letter, copied to King Abdullah, Prince Alwaleed’s uncle, among others. Poor baby.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1b6753ce-f86f-11e2-92f0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aUgsBASC

[HEARD THIS][Dave Williams] - Brains are weird, aren't they? A moment ago I said on the radio, quite rightly: "Sports, coming up next on 570 KLIF!" But, I came *THIS* close to saying, "...on Talkradio 790, KABC!" -- Where I haven't work for years and wasn't even thinking about it.

[PHOTO]

[Sharon Dale]
Radio Rewind: This is the only photo I have of myself at the third commercial radio station I worked at in Maine as a DJ, WIGY-FM. It was a stand-up board arrangement, which made it easy to dance to the rock songs we were playing in the late 70s. I usually worked the night shift, and it's the last station I worked at before moving to Los Angeles.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

[COMMENT]Today many hosts just ripped the president's speech to pieces. I guess we are now in a place where it's OK to just lie though your teeth, right into the eyes of the American people. It's also now becoming very easy to play clips and read back things that the president has said to completely debunk what he's saying now. I hear a couple hosts say that he is lying. For many years nobody was using this word, now it's all the time. To talk for an hour and 6 minutes and think that the America people are going to just stop what they are doing is just soo arrogant. I guess half the country are willing to do that. I heard some clips and I just hear Whaa whaa whaa whaa, like the Peanuts parents. I'm just a working stiff and I can see that he's just soo full of it. Funny how people just deny things because they have an agenda. A caller today said "why does it matter?" talking about Anthony Wiener. The guy is a predator, but hey he'd make a good mayor of New York. Ethics, principals....out the window. This society is in deep trouble if we find this kind of thing acceptable. Check the McIntyre quote below, he's spot on.

[RADIO]Looks like Clear Channel is pushing this new brand as hard as they can. iHeart radio has something new, iHeart Talk. After doing a search on several shows like McIntyre in the Morning, The Morning Answer, Marc Maron, came up empty. I did find Mark Levin. When iHeart radio first started it was Clear Channel stations only. They have expanded to lots of other stations and shows. Looks like they are trying to dominate in this arena, we shall see. Big corporations like Clear Channel doing this make me shy away from it. Apps like Stitcher and TuneIn I like much better.

Always mysterious, [Art Bell] hints at a return to radio.http://insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=2679053&spid=32061#.Ue_oIdLVB8E
Art repeatedly suggests on social media that he’s unhappy with new host [George Noory’s] broadening of the show’s topics. “I am profoundly sad at the current state of the show,” he says. I've never liked Noory and I think if Art came back he would crush him in the ratings, or maybe they would kick Noory to the curb and bring Art back. Their are tons of people out there that would love to hear Art back. I'm one of them. He's a great and compelling host. And he's over in the Philippines living a new life, with a new young wife and a new daughter. I remember him saying that he was living in a high rise condo and has an area in the condo that is his studio. He did fill in a few times on Coast from there. Lately I was wondering what had happened to him. I did not hear about this back in January. I'll be looking for articles in this.

[THUMBS DOWN]Didn't I put enough stuff in this post to cover this part? ;)

[QUOTE]"We are living in the golden age of lying and cheating" - [Doug McIntyre]

[SEEN ON THE ROAD]I was relocated to the Orange area on my new shift at work. I took my lunch break in Old Town Orange and then drove around Chapman University. This is where [Hugh Hewitt] teaches law. I gotta tell you, this campus is soo beautiful. I had no idea. And it being next to Old Town makes this area of OC just a gem. It's stunning how cool this area is. I want to live in one of those houses, hundreds and hundreds of beautiful old houses line these streets. Small town America still exists right there. Go there, great places to eat. http://iheartoldtowneorange.com/

[HEARD THIS][Rush] told a story this morning about 3 women in Sierra Madre, CA that didn't know how to use a computer, so they went to the library. They wanted to buy some merchandise from Rushs' Ice Tea company "Two if by Tea". I guess the librarian helped these ladies for 3 hours. It turned out that the stuff they wanted was sold out. Rush got the email from the librarian. They should just call into the show, Rush would probably give them all laptops or iPads.

Former KABC news man [Dave Williams] now in Texas with his Co-host Amy interviewing [Emmitt Smith]

[PARTING SHOT][Edward Snowden] has been in the transit area of a Russian airport for a month! I wonder if he's ever heard [George Carlin's] rant on washing the four key areas? Arm pits, asshole, crotch and teeth. And you can save yourself a whole lot of time by using the same brush on all four areas!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxDdsiXf8U

Monday, July 22, 2013

[COMMENT]Radio is dryer than [Noel Coward's] memoirs lately. 10 days later and I'm still having to turn off the radio when I hear them talking about that trial. Then today it's all about the royal baby. Give me a friggen break, will you? I'm a chronic listener as you well know, and maybe I just need to "sample" what's on instead of listening all day. I'm in the car, what else can I do? Then we have [Geraldo Rivera] tweeting a simi nude photo. What in the hell is the matter with him? He tweeted this on Monday night:

@GeraldoRivera
If my pix is so offensive to media critics, why do they keeping flashing the damn thing over & over? "Isn't this terrible? Let's see it again"
I hope ABC fires his ass and that crap ass radio show that nobody listens to. Ever heard of [Anthony Wiener?] Seriously stupid.

[RADIO]UNIVISION CANCELS POPULAR [EDDIE "PIOLIN" SOTELO] MORNING SHOWhttp://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2678622&spid=24698
Funny, you know this is happening because of the recent ratings. He got higher ratings than [Bill Handel] on KFI. He probably said that exact thing in a meeting. He will be back, he's a money maker, how can they not work this out? Just this also, I have never heard his show.......I don't speak Spanish!

Here's The Thing: [Dwight Gooden]
This week [Alec Baldwin] sits down with pitcher Dwight Gooden whose blistering fastball and notoriously deceptive curve ball earned him the Rookie of the Year Award in 1984. He was 19 years old. Gooden’s outstanding first three years in Major League Baseball were replaced by very public battles with alcohol and cocaine which he struggled with for much of his professional career. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/

[PODCASTS]Wow [Thom Yorke] from Radiohead on with [Marc Maron] this week. That's gonna be a must hear. Also another great blog post from Marc. I think he writes a lot when he's flying. Cool thoughts on being in Nashville. Makes me want to go there. His posts are called Dispatches from the Head. http://www.wtfpod.com/

[THUMBS DOWN]So am I an insensitive ass if I don't give a rats ass that Former Governor [David Paterson] Officially Joins ‘AM 970 The Answer’ in New York. He's blind, does that mean I'm supposed to give the guy a chance or listen and feel sorry for him? Do not care and won't be listening.

Friday, July 19, 2013

[COMMENT]Change. I'm back to a morning shift and will be up very early and listening. Trying to figure out when I will be able to write this blog that I'm so attached to writing now. It usually takes me a couple hours to gather material and write this. And maybe this next week I will hear something other than hosts talking about the Zimmerman trial. Enough is enough. We have so many other things to talk about. Sliding into summer lots of hosts here and there, taking days off and some cool hosts filling in. This may be a week where I have listened to less talk radio than I have all year. The saturation with this trial is just ridiculous. I don't think I have ever seen a week in talk radio like this. Even hosts that I like, like Rush talking about Rachel Gentel two days in a row. Talk about a waste of airtime. The voice of reason is still Mark Levin. Mark just does not tow anyone's line or care about being criticized. I'm hoping that people in radio are talking about a future of radio that would include more entertainment. This all politics all the time needs to be tamped down. More Phil Hendries, more comedians. Monique Marvez sitting in at KFI was really great. I was with a female co-worker all day today and she has no idea what is going on in AM radio or podcasts or anything. It amazes me when I talk to people like this. I think AM political radio is stigmatized. It's unfortunate. I think it's been such a huge learning resource in my life over the years. But I think it needs to change. Entertain me!

[RADIO][John Phillips] at KABC sits in for [Larry Elder] Wednesday while Larry goes on CNN with [Piers Morgan]. John lands an interview with [Jesse Jackson]. A tweet from Larry says @larryelder

"For 20 years, Rev.Jackson has refused to come on my radio show. I take the day off to do Piers and, viola, he's my replacement's guest"

One of the best guests back in the day with [Art Bell] was [Nick Begich]. He was on Coast to Coast to talk about the shut down of the Air Forces HAARP project in Alaska. This is has been talked about for a long time. Nick has a new TV show airing this week.

Better than reality; more than make believe: radio’s re-creation of Baseball
Posted on July 19, 2013 by Bob Mason

I’m not making this up: every time a player hit the ball, the announcer whacked the block of wood. He wasn’t just announcing, he was re-enacting; no, more than this, he was recreating, or actually creating a new representation of the game, in a newly created dimension of reality, all the while passing it off to his audience as the traditional game itself, the old ball game.

The guy who did this 1957-1959 was named [Les Keiter], a legendary sports announcer who was perhaps the only person ever quite up to pulling this off. Keiter was endlessly enthusiastic about everything. When [Willie Mays] tripled and slid into third ahead of the throw, Keiter would trumpet in supremely thrilled satisfaction: “He beat the ball, He beat the Ball!!”

[PARTING SHOT]“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” - [Lao Tzu]

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

[COMMENT]This is an unusual week where I'm only able to listen to radio in the morning. I'm in training this week at my job and can't listen to any radio all day. Perfect week for it too. Who in the hell is the person that leaves the radio on during this all Zimmerman all the time stuff? Total coverage, total saturation of a topic is something that the local stations thinks is great. They are covering it so YOU get all the news and updates there are. Who cares? It's over and a local station says Zimmerman is "In hiding" ...makes it sound more dramatic I guess. One good thing is we can see all the foreheads in this town that don't have a clue. Remember that line from the Dating Game........and here they are!

This has got to be one of the most unbelievable LA photos I have ever seen. Never in my life would I think that some 200 protesters would just walk down a freeway. Last time I checked, walking down a freeway is not kosher. LAPD is giving these people wide latitude. They didn't even do this during the LA riots or during the OJ case. This is a good reason to put up more cameras to really ID these people and prosecute them. And the protests continued last night. Tonight the LAPD says they will not be putting up with any crap and more arrests will be made and some real potential for bad stuff tonight in the Crenshaw area. How about......lets move on with our lives?

Last show for [Ian Punnett]
In April 2000, Punnett became the regular Sunday-night host for Coast to Coast. He was the first person other than [Art Bell] to be "given" a night of the week in his or her name. He has been accepted into the Doctoral program at the [Walter Cronkite] School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. I always liked Ian, great personality and just a nice person and a very good broadcaster. he will be missed. You can hear him on with [Wayne Resnick] from Sunday night at 8pm. Audio posted at KFIam640.com
Read about Ian's whole career
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Punnett

Best Radio Show logo I have ever seen.

City Life Snapshot: Pullman Rail Car Journeys, a great 2 minute story.

[Adam Carolla] talks about going to [Jimmy Kimmel's] wedding. Adam smoked weed and was boozing it up 2 hours before the wedding and talked to people like [Jennifer Aniston] and [Stanley Tucci] among the 700 guests.http://adamcarolla.com/adam-alison-and-bald-bryan/

Saturday, July 13, 2013

[COMMENT]On Friday [Jay Leno] interviewed Eliot Spitzer. To be totally honest, I think he's a scum bag, Eliot that is. I watched the interview because I've never seen or heard this guy up close. He's a piece of work to think that he can be the Governor or the AG of New York and break the law spending $80,000 on prostitutes and then come back into public life to be elected again. Jay asked him "how could you be soo stupid to think you could get away with this?" To the point and blunt. He didn't mean he thought he was stupid, just how is it possible him being a law enforcement officer and then breaking the law. Jay mentioned that he enjoys following politics and I know he listens to talk radio. He's called in a few times to some shows and heard he used to listen to Conway on 97.1. Prediction. When Jay is done with the Tonight Show in December he will continue to do his stand up all over the country and maybe go to another network like Fox but I think he may consider doing a weekend radio show on KFI or some other local station. I would love to hear him do a show. He doesn't need the money, but I think he likes to get out of the house and do something besides go to his garage everyday, who knows I'm just speculating. Anybody thought about this? If Jay Leno called KFI and said give me a show, they would. Or maybe he would sit in with or for some other hosts. I think he would be good at it. A political/entertainment show on the radio with Jay Leno? I'm there. Just a thought.

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has been honored for his Absolute Radio show for a third successive year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio awards. I had no idea he had a show. This is of course in the UK.

Interesting summer food that I have never heard of.
Benedictine is a combination of cream cheese, cucumber and onion. It may sound odd, unless you're from Kentucky. This story from Weekend Edition Saturday with [Scott Simon] on NPR

[QUOTE]“The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.”
- [Mark R. Levin], Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

[TECH]Heard this on [Leo Laporte's] show. A cool new flash light. I know that sounds lame but just check out this 2 minute video on the new Energizer 3-in-1 Tripod Light with Light Fusion Technology. One cool commercial.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK_WFcP-9fI

[Google] estimates that an ad on its homepage would cost $10 million. However, the space isn't for sale.

[HEARD THIS]SiriusXM Moves Past 25 Million Subscriber Mark. SiriusXM Radio announces it has added 715,000 net new subscribers in the second quarter, and that brings its total subscriber number to more than 25 million. As soon as it's in my company vehicle I'll subscribe. Sounds like it's surviving. I didn't think it would last this long. You can also listen online and on your phone now. http://www.siriusxm.com/

[PHOTO]West Hills, CA

[PARTING SHOT]It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper - [Jerry Seinfeld]

Thursday, July 11, 2013

[COMMENT]The [George Zimmerman] trial is a complete media created hype. Every radio station and every show has talked about it. [Sean Hannity] even had an interview with him and that interview was played in open court as part of the case. It's about race, period. There are a lot of people in this world, politicians especially that want to be able to divide people for there own agenda, and demonetization of the right. It's race baiting. There are thousands of cases all over this country everyday, even down the street from you at your local courthouse that are about people being convicted of murder using race as the reason for it. A few years ago I was on a jury that convicted two gang members in a twin murder trial. Ever heard about that? These two guys drove up and down a street and shot a guy they thought was a gang member. Turns out he wasn't. Glad to see those a-holes go to jail for a long time. But soo what? There are hundreds if not thousands of these cases everyday. The media sets up these kind of race based stories because they think it gets ratings, it does. Turns out Radio and TV are in the advertising business. If you are sucked into this kind of thing your not paying enough attention. You are being manipulated. Props to [Hugh Hewitt] at KRLA who has established a Zimmerman free zone. Hugh went on and on about how it's a waste of airtime.... "there is something wrong with you if you think this is important". I agree...click.

[RADIO]Radio this week is so unlistenable with some exceptions. I have been turning on the classical station to just take a breath from all the horrible news mixed in with almost every host obsessed with the Zimmerman trial. One exciting thing was [Mark Levin's] announcement of his new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. Mark explained a way that we can go around Congress to change our future. He said that Washington will not change themselves. A little known part of article 5 in the Constitution gives back power to the states and takes away power from Congress to amend the Constitution. I think Mark is the smartest host out there and it's like a college course listening to him.

[QUOTE]"There are gay people and then there are professional homosexuals" - [Brain Whitman] doing [Al Rantel]

"Doesn't Zimmerman look like [Chaz Bono?]" - [Dennis Miller]

[PODCASTS][John Lovitz] of SNL fame who runs and owns the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Universal City has started a video cast network. His first two interviews are with [Sam Ruben], Entertainment reporter from KTLA TV and then with [Dana Carvey] who I'm sure I don't have to explain. It's on YouTube for now and I think Jon is working on putting it on his own website. The interview with Dana is great and it's fantastic to see that chemistry between them back in action. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-XviDF22IlKwtMR5u1O7FQ

[HEARD THIS]Danny was at 97.1 back in the day. Not looking too good these days. Last time I saw him he was all musclebound. Age is creeping up.

[Dr. Daliah] and [Danny Bonaduce]. Nationally syndicated talk show host Dr. Daliah Wachs is pictured here with radio and television star Danny Bonaduce. Dr. Wachs met up with Bonaduce while on her annual cruise – this time to Alaska – with listeners. Wachs and her group enjoyed the opportunity to sit at the captain’s table, get a private tour of the bridge and more. She says of meeting Bonaduce, “We were happy to know we were mutual fans. LOL!!!”